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Friday, November 5th Note: NADT Conference sessions are valid for the following types of
Continuing Education credits: NADT RDT CE Hours and CEUs for
California Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists (LMFT) and
Licensed Clinical Social Workers (LCSW).
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Registration: 7:30 am – 11:00 am
1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
W1: Hospitality Room
Liz Muckley, MA., RDT, LCPC
A1: Drama Therapy and Performance Art Come explore and honor story themes from your life through drama therapy and performance art. This postmodern workshop will deconstruct personal and shared narratives and explore the liminal space while discovering new forms of expression and meaning. The workshop culminates in the creation and sharing of a 2-3 minute performance.
A2: Drama Therapy, Mindfulness, and Liminal Spaces Between Mind, Brain, and Body
Gary Raucher, RDT/BCT, LMFT
Neuroscience demonstrates how the brain relates to healthy functioning, but does not explain the mysteries of mind or consciousness. Mindfulness research correlates intangible subjective states to measurable brain phenomena. This session is didactic and experiential and explores how drama therapy can be used to bridge the subjective and the behavioral, facilitating change.
A3: Researching Brain-Based Concepts in Drama Therapy Without a Brain Scanner
Sally Bailey, MFA, MSW, RDT/BCT
Paige Dickinson, PhD, RDT/BCT
John Bergman, MA, RDT/MT
Drama therapists don’t need a brain-scanner in order to prove the connections between drama therapy and neuroscience! Panelists will present results from drama therapy research and demonstrate how to set up a drama therapy research study that measures results in terms of brain-based concepts.
A4: Playback Theatre, Ethnodrama and Drama Therapy as Effective Tools for Diversity Training
Stephen Snow, PhD, RDT/BCT
Miranda D'Amico, PhD
Poppy Baktis, MA
This workshop is designed to offer participants a hands-on and theoretical background in how to effectively use Playback Theatre, Ethnodrama and various drama therapy techniques in Diversity Training. It is based on a 4-year research project which has resulted in a Diversity Training Kit for university-level and professional groups.
A5: Teaching the Liminal Space in Drama Therapy
Jason Butler, MA, RDT/BCT, LCAT
This workshop, designed for educators, will look at the training of drama therapists with a particular focus placed on experiential training methods and their potential effectiveness in transmitting complex therapeutic skills. Group participants will engage in a sharing of methods and an exploration of the line between therapy and training.
A6: Helping Families at the Threshold: Integrating Drama Therapy and Attachment Theory
Sheila Rubin, MA, RDT/BCT, LMFT
Drama therapy can lead families into liminal space. Having an understanding of attachment theory allows the drama therapist to work on multiple levels. Drama therapy exercises can lead family members to re-learn how to play together, express unexpressed feelings, and see each other in the strange new light of love and connection.
A7: Margin or Merging: Los Dilemas de la Biculturalidad
Carlos Rodriguez, MA, RDT/BCT, LCAT
Susana Pendzik, PhD, RDT
Antonio Ramirez-Hernandez, PsyD
"To be or not to be"…or perhaps what to be is the central question in the dilemma many Latino immigrants and their first generation children face as they live in the ambivalence of wanting to assimilate and yet long to hold on to their ethnic and cultural identities as Latinos.
A8: Threading the Needle: Engaging the Traumatized Child in the Playspace
Renée Pitre, MA, RDT
David Johnson, PhD, RDT/BCT Traumatized children are easily triggered in the interpersonal environment. Developmental Transformations provides a playspace for traumatic material to be expressed interpersonally, allowing opportunities for desensitization and flexibility. Clinical examples and video footage will be used to illustrate effective techniques for engaging the child in the playspace.
A9: Moving at the Margins: Playing Alternative Histories Through
Drama Therapy
Christine Mayor, MA
“Official” history too often shuts down, rather than opens up, our possibilities by fixing roles or leaving out important stories. Through discussion and experiential exercises, this presentation will challenge the traditional limits and explore the therapeutic benefit of playing with and performing these missing stories that lie at the margins.
A10: Smile and Fool Your Body: The Therapeutic Impact of Facial Expressions
Tami Gatta, MA
Facial expressions play an essential role in the non-verbal communication that informs standard interactions. What happens when therapists struggle to understand muddied displays of facial affect? Science shows us that clients who display non-traditional affect can benefit from practice. Could this mean drama therapy works? Does it matter?
A11: ... And now I am in Canada (After the Haitian Earthquake)
Susan Ward, MA, RDT In January 2010, an earthquake left the country of Haiti devastated. Many families chose to come to Canada - specifically Quebec, where a large Haitian community exists. This presentation is the story of the work that was done with one school and the 55 Haitian children who arrived after the earthquake. A12: Little Monsters: Developmental Transformations with Children in Acute Inpatient Psychiatry
Adam Reynolds, MFA, MA, RDT, CASAC-T
Jason Frydman, MA
The ability to play is natural to children: but in acute mental crisis, a child's ability to play is disrupted and pathologized. DvT calls upon the power of play but rubs up against the structure and boundaries of the inpatient unit. Can the two be reconciled? We explore together.
A13: Myth-A-Drama: The Personal Development Model of Drama Therapy
Claire Schrader, MA, SRAT (DRAMA)
Do you long to take your practice deeper and further? Delve into the rich terrain of myth-a-drama, the personal development model of drama therapy developed by Claire Schrader in the UK. Enter the mythic landscape and discover this methodology for bringing the transformational aspects of drama therapy to a wider public.
A14: 12 Angry Lebanese: Drama Therapy in Lebanese Prisons
Zeina Daccache, Alternative Training Student
Sally Bailey, MFA, MSW, RDT/BCT
The documentary 12 Angry Lebanese will be screened. This film follows an all-male group of adult inmates residing in Lebanon’s notorious Roumieh Prison, who experienced the pioneer practice of Drama Therapy/Theatre in 2008-2009 led by the female presenter. A discussion will follow the screening.
A15: Cross the Line: Drama Therapy for Socio-historic Conflict Resolution
Emily Burkes-Nossiter, MA
Where do you find your edge when encountering difference? How do you negotiate fluid boundaries between the roles of victim, perpetrator, and witness? Is there any neutral ground? Explore your intersecting identities and historical legacies and discover the use of drama therapy to facilitate dialogue and cultivate transformative relationships.
A16: Limning the Liminal: Entering into the Mystery of Transitional Space through Drama Therapy
Robert Landy, PhD, RDT/BCT, LCAT
In this workshop, participants will explore the complexity and mystery of liminal moments through a process of active imagination. Participants will work to create both their personal conceptions of the liminal and significant liminal concerns within the field of drama therapy.
A17: Pushing the Boundaries in Residential Treatment Centers (A Progression)
Azizi Marshall, MA, RDT
Whitney Davis, MSW
Through a steady progression of performance-based drama therapy sessions within a residential program, residents advance through multiple drama therapy sessions, culminating in a self-revelatory piece of work that includes client-written music. A family component also brings to life each resident's sociogram through art therapy and psychodrama.
A18: Psychodrama and Drama Therapy: Rivals or Partners?
Daniel Wiener, PhD, RDT/BCT, LMFT
Saphira Linden, MA, RDT/BCT, LCAT, CP
Professionals within the psychodrama and drama therapy fields often magnify their differences, thus overlooking fundamental similarities. This workshop utilizes sociometric exercises and dramatic enactment to explore these fields as both rivals and partners. Participants will heighten their awareness of how loyalties inform and affect their professional identities.
A19: The Wild Hunt for Liminal Spaces: A Film Screening
Mark Krupa, CGP
Jason Butler, MA, RDT/BCT, LCAT
Bonnie Harnden, MA, RDT
The Wild Hunt is an international award-winning feature film co-produced by MA drama therapy student Mark Krupa. Fantasy and reality collide in this innovative saga set within the liminal space of a live-action role-playing game that spirals out of control. Panel discussions regarding liminal spaces, playspaces, role play and ritual will follow the screening.
A20: Body as Impasse: Drama Therapy and Medically Compromised Children This workshop will present case studies of the use of Developmental Transformations in working with medically compromised children. We will consider embodiment and playspace when the impasse itself exists within the body due to the medical conditions.
A21: The Wounded Healer: A Student Performance
Caroline Moore, BS
Maria Hodermarska, MA, RDT, CASAC, LCAT
Marissa Manzanares
Drama therapy students from multiple schools have created performance pieces to explore their journeys and stay actively engaged in their artistry. This performance series explores the liminal space created by their training and addresses the question: How does performance help the wounded become the healer?
A22: Beyond the Boundaries of a Traumatic Brain Injury
Victoria Blumberg, MA, RDT, LCAT
Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury have had their lives altered forever, both introspectively and interpersonally, by their injury. Six residents worked tirelessly to create a play for the staff at their facility, exploring how their world is perceived as limited by their disabilities whilst exposing the depths of their abilities.
A23: Talking About My Generation: Exploring the Liminal Space Between Generations of Drama Therapists Working in the Field Today
Jason Conover, MA, RDT Kristin Long, MA, RDT/BCT, LCAT Therapists have discussed generational differences among clinicians and clients, but rarely among therapists themselves. What are some commonalities and differences? What are our assumptions about people from our own and other generations? This workshop will explore the challenges of working with and supervising individuals from different generations.
A24: Stepping Outside of Myself: Adolescents, Drama and Change
Lanell Finneran, MA, RDT/BCT
Christina Cherry, MA
Jamie McCall, BA
Adolescents with mental health issues benefit greatly from drama therapy. Participating in drama therapy group offers these teens the opportunity to step outside themselves, develop safe, appropriate boundaries, and practice social skills needed to function successfully in school, at home, and in society.
A25: I Saw the Snow Raining Snow: Drama Therapy with Newly Arrived Refugees
Heidi Landis, MFA, RDT, LCAT, CP/PAT, CGP
Each year, thousands of refugees are invited by the government to seek safety. Forced to flee persecution, many have survived for years against incredible odds. Through experiential exercises and teaching, this workshop will look at the CANY process of drama therapy group work and research processes with newly arrived refugees.
NADT Diversity Forum: Indigenous Perspectives in Drama Therapy This forum focuses on Indigenous perspectives in drama therapy and clinical work with Indigenous populations. How have Indigenous practices informed our field? What specific skills, understandings, and considerations do we bring to our work with Indigenous people? What challenges do we face working with these populations? What strengths and resources can be mobilized?
PER3: What I Forgot: One Drama Therapist Returns to the Edge “What I Forgot” explores the beckoning call of the liminal space and one drama therapist’s struggle to enter in. It tells the story of profound resistance, resistance to engaging in a creative process, by doing just that, making art, exploring the blocks and challenges that arise along the way.
PER4: Scrambled but Not Broken: A Theatrical Transformation
Michelle Ebert Friere, MFA
Mark Borquez
Dave Foltz
John Vanlancker
Beverly Baird
Tiffany Keeler
Performance troupe Living Out Loud presents its original theatrical piece, "Scrambled Eggs," which shares members' true stories of living with mental illness and their ongoing recovery process. A description of the devising methods, as well as a discussion of the implications of the journey from consumer to expert, follow.
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